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America's representative at the 2017 Venice Biennale, Bradford has radically renewed abstract artMark Bradford's exhibition for the US Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, titled Tomorrow Is Another Day, is born out of the artist's longtime commitment to the inherently social nature of the material world. For Bradford, abstraction is not opposed to content; it embodies it. Finding materials for his paintings in the hair salon, Home Depot and the streets of Los Angeles, Bradford renews the traditions of abstract painting, demonstrating that freedom from socially prescribed representation is profoundly meaningful in the hands of a black artist. Mark Bradford: Tomorrow Is Another Day is not only a catalog for Bradford's pavilion project; it is a different kind of book, a substantial publication that blends the biographical with the historical and political.